While making this unit I thought that the best way to make it interesting for the students was to link it to their lives. With starting off with the fish activity and then asking them why don’t you look you siblings I think will hook them into wanting to learn more about genetics. By looking at my unit plan you should be able to see how each lesson builds on the lesson before it. This is very important especially for genetics. In genetics if you don’t understand a point like homozygous then you wont be able to do the work down the line. So by starting off giving them a few vocabulary words at a time and very basic worksheet then building them up to difficult word problems works the best. Also throughout this semester while working at SKHS I saw that a lot of the students were having problems in math. So what I decided to do was that coin flipping activity to show percentages. This will hopefully reinforce a concept that isn’t very hard but will be difficult for them since there is math involved. With the use of inquiry, the Your Perfect Mate where they will have to find a picture of someone and just by looking at this picture figure out their genotype then crossing the person traits with their own should really get the students thinking and using their imaginations.
While I was looking for resources on-line and I can into the Sponge Bob worksheets I though that those were great. This is a cartoon that I knew a lot of the students most likely grew up watching. This would really connect this work to their lives, and when I brought them to show my CT she has already used the same worksheets years before and told me that the kids just love it and it really helps them understand the topics.
With assessing the students, most of my assessment is going to come from the work that I see them do everyday, not just the tests/quizzes. Some of the assessment will have to be tests and quizzes do to the way that school systems are set up. The lab report is very important. SKHS has a science department lab report rubric that all teachers must use, so this is what I will be using to assess the students lab reports.
While making this unit I thought that the best way to make it interesting for the students was to link it to their lives. With starting off with the fish activity and then asking them why don’t you look you siblings I think will hook them into wanting to learn more about genetics. By looking at my unit plan you should be able to see how each lesson builds on the lesson before it. This is very important especially for genetics. In genetics if you don’t understand a point like homozygous then you wont be able to do the work down the line. So by starting off giving them a few vocabulary words at a time and very basic worksheet then building them up to difficult word problems works the best. Also throughout this semester while working at SKHS I saw that a lot of the students were having problems in math. So what I decided to do was that coin flipping activity to show percentages. This will hopefully reinforce a concept that isn’t very hard but will be difficult for them since there is math involved. With the use of inquiry, the Your Perfect Mate where they will have to find a picture of someone and just by looking at this picture figure out their genotype then crossing the person traits with their own should really get the students thinking and using their imaginations.
While I was looking for resources on-line and I can into the Sponge Bob worksheets I though that those were great. This is a cartoon that I knew a lot of the students most likely grew up watching. This would really connect this work to their lives, and when I brought them to show my CT she has already used the same worksheets years before and told me that the kids just love it and it really helps them understand the topics.
With assessing the students, most of my assessment is going to come from the work that I see them do everyday, not just the tests/quizzes. Some of the assessment will have to be tests and quizzes do to the way that school systems are set up. The lab report is very important. SKHS has a science department lab report rubric that all teachers must use, so this is what I will be using to assess the students lab reports.